Men's Tennis Upsets USF, 4-3

Sunday, February 3

Tampa, FL

12:00 PM

Florida Gators

South Florida

Men's Tennis Upsets USF, 4-3

Sunday, February 3, 2002 | Men's Tennis

Junior Eleazar Magallan won the final and decisive match as the No. 37 Florida men’s tennis team upset No. 28 South Florida, 4-3, on Sunday afternoon at the USF Varsity Courts in Tampa. The Gators remain undefeated on the year, improving to 3-0 while the Bulls were handed their first loss of the year, slipping to 3-1 in the process.

For the first time this year UF lost the doubles point. Olivier Levant and Magallan came away with a 8-4 win at No. 2 but the odd matches went for the Bulls, including the decisive match at No. 1 where Paco Antelo and Uli Kiendl clipped Chris McDonald and Hamid Mirzadeh, 9-8 (9-7).

The Gators took four of the six singles matches though for the overall team victory. UF took a 3-1 lead by racking up wins by Mirzadeh, Levant and Matt Behrmann at the No. 1, No. 4 and No. 5 positions, respectively. The Bulls clawed their way back to even the match at 3-3 though on the heels of wins at No. 3 and No. 6. That left just Magallan on the courts at No. 2 but the All-Big 12 transfer from Kansas put away Kiendl, 6-3, 7-5.

Florida returns to action on Feb. 16 when the Gators host Brown at 4:00 pm.

NCAA Men's Tennis
Florida 4, South Florida 3
Doubles
No. 1 Paco Antelo/Uli Kiendl (USF) d. #32 Chris McDonald/Hamid Mirzadeh (UF), 9-8 (7)
No. 2 #36 Olivier Levant/Eleazar Magallan (UF) d. Martin Wetzel/Dan McCain (USF), 8-4
No. 3 Jorge Escallan/Nadim Naser (USF) d. Matt Behrmann/Ross Greenstein (UF), 8-5
Singles
No. 1 #110 Hamid Mirzadeh (UF) d. Paco Antelo (USF), 6-0, 6-3
No. 2 #57 Eleazar Magallan (UF) d. Uli Kiendl (USF), 6-3, 7-5
No. 3 Martin Wetzel (USF) d. Troy Hahn (UF), 6-3, 6-2
No. 4 #98 Olivier Levant (UF) d. Dan McCain (USF), 6-3, 6-3
No. 5 Matt Behrmann (UF) d. Nadim Naser (USF), 6-3, 6-0
No. 6 Jorge Escallon (USF) d. Trey Johnson (UF), 3-6, 6-0, 6-1